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发音：[dɪˈkɔrəm]
例句：
- Decorum refers to behaving in a way that is considered polite and appropriate for a particular situation or place. It involves following certain rules and conventions, such as using polite language, dressing appropriately, and showing respect for others.
- Many people who like the British monarchy appreciate how they always follow a certain way of behaving called decorum.
- You wouldn’t think Jeremiah Tower, who wrote “Table Manners: How to Behave in the Modern World and Why Bother,” would be the person to write about decorum.
- If someone is going to represent your business online, they should show they can control themselves and act with decorum on their personal social media accounts too.
- We expect that the event yesterday will give our coaches and student-athletes the chance to think about what happened, learn from it, and move forward in a way that shows they can behave with decorum and leadership on and off the court.
- The book presents scientific arguments that the scientific community should be allowed to judge on their own, instead of being stopped by your arbitrary, self-righteous rules about decorum.
解释：
- Decorum这个单词做名词使用，其表示“socially acceptable behavior”这一含义，即“礼貌得体/端庄稳重/礼仪/体统”，与etiquette/decency这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Many of the traditional meeting protocols are abandoned, replaced with an idealistic trust in basic human decency and decorum.（许多传统的会议协议被抛弃，取而代之的是对基本人类体面和礼仪的理想主义信任。）
–Culture - The company did not appear to value the challenge and users of color reported that their posts were being removed under unclear rules of decorum.（该公司似乎并不重视这一挑战，有色人种用户报告说，他们的帖子在礼仪规则不明确的情况下被删除。）
–Business - To be honest, giving in to anger and frustration, disregarding the decorum we typically adhere to in our daily lives, was incredibly invigorating.（老实说，屈服于愤怒和沮丧，无视我们在日常生活中通常坚持的礼仪，令人难以置信地振奋人心。）
–Arts - He lost his usual decorum and used foul language during a news conference on Friday after being accused of being able to control the timing of his matches.（在被指控能够控制比赛时间后，他在周五的新闻发布会上失去了通常的礼貌得体并使用了粗言秽语。）
–Sports - According to a statement by the town’s lawyer, John J. Davis, the court’s decision serves as a caution to local officials that enforcing even small rules of order and decorum during public meetings may not be allowed.（根据该镇律师约翰·J·戴维斯的声明，法院的裁决是对当地官员的警告，即使是很小的秩序和礼仪规则也可能不允许在公开会议上执行。）
–Law - At the start of the morning proceedings, her attorneys objected to her being photographed, citing a violation of courthouse decorum.（在上午的诉讼开始时，她的律师反对她被拍照，理由是违反了法院礼仪。）
–News
